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A federal probe into Google's search results could soon end with a settlement that largely keeps the U.S. government out of its business. But one of the search giant's most vocal critics says that however toothless the potential deal, Google will not have escaped untouched just yet.

Whereas businesses once purchased servers from these big three to store and transport their digital goods, they¿re now choosing to make their own servers and data centers. The server industry is being disrupted, and three key trends have evolved as a result of this disruption...

Google's great little social network got even better Friday. Google+ gained over twenty new features across mobile and web platforms, and the iPhone app was redesigned as well. Maybe more people will use it now.

The year is winding down, but that doesn¿t mean we¿ve run out of cool tech to talk about. In this week¿s episode of the Gadget Lab Show, the crew takes a look at the a Samsung rival to the iPod Shuffle and a set of snowboarding Googles that feed you data as you shred the slopes.

Google Fiber -- the search giant's brand-new, ultra-high-speed internet service -- is only available in Kansas City, and even there, it only runs to homes, so there's no trying the thing out during a Kansas City hotel stay. But if you really want a taste of those 800 Mbps speeds -- that's about 100 times faster than your average internet connection -- there's another option. You can rent a room at the hacker house.

Google Maps for iOS finally launched Wednesday night, and it should come as no surprise that it's vastly superior than the error-riddled attempt at mapping that Apple launched with iOS 6. Perhaps less obvious though is that Google¿s version of Maps for iOS is actually quite different from its Android counterpart.

Hurricane Sandy restarted the conversation about emergency preparedness in the public forum, but safety and security directors around the world perpetually consider how to best prepare their institutions for the hour of disaster. Many are finding that cloud-based solutions enhance accessibility, portability and redundancy -- three of the most important qualities of an emergency response ...

Google Maps is back on the iPhone after an absence of almost four months. And it has a few things Apple Maps still lacks -- like public transit directions, Zagat listings and Google's Street View panoramas.

On January 2, 1991 a young Helsinki student named Linus Torvalds went shopping for the most badass computer he could afford. He spent FIM 18,000 -- about $3,500 -- on a gray brick that came with a 33 megahertz processor and 4 megabytes of RAM.

Viddy, a popular social video app hoping to become an Instagram-for-video, launched an Android app on Wednesday. The company is hoping that Android users will flock to the app, which would help stem a decline in daily users, despite an increase in registered users.

The law of averages demands that most of the stuff we get will be lame. For every Kindle Paperwhite, there's an uninspired Android smartphone, iPhone case with a bottle opener and a rushed-to-market Windows 8 tablet. To much of the gadgets and gear that crosses our desks are iterative improvements or blatant ripoffs and hardly worth our time. But they only make us appreciate the good stuff that much more.

The price of unlocking the secrets of your DNA has dropped to stocking-stuffer range as Google-backed 23andMe said today that a major new investment was allowing them to offer their personal gene scans for $99.

Microsoft is boosting its efforts to sell its Surface RT tablet. The company has already increased production for Surface RT, and the tablet will begin appearing on third-party retail shelves as early as mid-December.

Google's Gmail service went down for about 20 minutes on Monday. That was annoying, but not exactly unprecedented. These sorts of outages happen all the time. What was strange is that the Gmail outage coincided with widespread reports that Google's Chrome browser was also crashing.
Late Monday, Google engineer Tim Steele confirmed what developers had ...